Oracle Fusion Technical: Reports, Data, Integrations and Extensions · Module 15 · ESS jobs and scheduling
Job sets and dependencies
Lesson 149 of 177 · 2 min
A JOB SET IS NOT THE SAME AS TWO SCHEDULED JOBS, and the difference is the whole lesson. Two scheduled jobs run at their own times and know nothing about each other. Job A at midnight, job B at one o'clock, and B runs whether or not A succeeded — or whether or not A has finished. The gap is a guess about how long A takes, and it is wrong the first month volumes grow. A JOB SET CHAINS THEM. B runs after A, and only if A succeeded. That is a dependency the system enforces rather than a schedule somebody hoped was far enough apart. Use one wherever the second step is meaningless without the first. Load the file then run the import. Run the accounting then run the report. Anywhere you find yourself choosing a gap between two schedules, you want a job set. The trade, stated…
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